An International Workshop to be held in conjunction with the

and sponsored by the EU ChiRoPing project: Developing versatile and robust perception using sonar systems that integrate active sensing, morphology and behaviour.

Program is below.

There has been an enormous amount of research on analysis of video data of humans, but relatively little on visual analysis of other organisms. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate and bring together the current research in this area, and provide a forum for researchers to share expertise. As we want to make this more of a discussion workshop, we encourage work-in-progress presentations. Reviewing will be lightweight and only abstracts will be circulated to attendees.

The types of issues that research will address include:

• detection of living organisms
• organism tracking and movement analysis
• dynamic shape analysis
• classification of different organisms (eg. by subspecies)
• assessment of organism behavior or behavior changes
• size and shape assessment
• counting
• health monitoring

These problems can be applied to a variety of species at different sizes, such as fruit and house flies, crickets, cockroaches and other insects, farmed and wild fish, mice and rats, commercial farm animals such as poultry, cows and horses, and wildlife monitoring, etc. One aspect that they all have in common is video data.

Submission Information

Submit a 4 page extended abstract in English, in PDF, by email to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk by July 21, 2008. The abstracts should be anonymous. Include in your email the name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation, complete mailing address, international phone and fax numbers. The papers presented at the workshop will be published in the workshop notes, for distribution to the participants and linked to this page after the workshop.

Important Dates

Registration Information

On-line registration of workshops will be available via the ICPR2008 web page. It is not necessary to register for the full conference to attend the workshop.

Workshop Organisers

Program Committee

Program

9:30	A Particle Filter for Tracking a Firefly
	Y. Tsukamoto, Y. Matsumoto, T. Wada
10:00	Automatically Extracting Drosophila Courtship Behaviour Statistics from Video
	J.A. Heward, T.C. Lukins, M.A. Dewar, J.D. Armstrong
10:30	Early Pest Detection in Greenhouses
	V. Martin, S. Moisan
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Analysis of Kinematics and Dynamics of Butterflies in Natural Flight, with Estimation of Occluded Data
	N. Gans, A. Chakravarthy, R. Albertani
12:00	Video Monitoring of Honey Bee Colonies at the Hive Entrance
	J. Campbell, L. Mummert, R. Sukthankar
12:30	Tracking Dragonflies in Image Sequences
	Y. Bachalany, F. Cabestaing, C. Vieren, S. Ambellouis, R. Olberg
1300	Lunch
14:00	Towards Automatic Model-Based Identification of Individual Sharp-Tailed Snakes from Natural Body Markings
	A. Branzan Albu, G. Wiebe, P. Govindarajulu, C. Engelstoft, K. Ovaska
14:30	Characterising a High-Speed 3D Surface Scanner for Bat Behaviour Study
	Y. Xiao, R. B. Fisher, M. Oscar
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Visual Recapture for Movement Ecology at Interannual Timescales
	S. Ravela, C. Yang, J. Runge, L. Gamble, K. McGarigal, M. Chesser, B. Timm
16:00	Monitoring Creatures Great and Small: Computer Vision Systems for Looking at Grizzly Bears, Fish, and Grasshoppers
	G. Mori, M. M. Naeini, A. Rova, P. Sabzmeydani, J. Wawerla
16:30	Discussion
17:00	Close

Contact

Email: Prof. Robert Fisher at rbf -a-t- inf.ed.ac.uk.

School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh 1.26 Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK +44-(131)-651-3441 (direct line), +44-(131)-651-3443 (secretary) Fax: +44-(131)-651-3435